INTELLIGIBLE SIGNALS, &c. 

 A Magic Square. 



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It now only remains to difcover what can make an 

 impreflion on our fenfes, at the greateft diftance, and at the 

 leail expence. I would here remark that great advan- 

 tage might be made of the obfervatlons of Dr. FrankUn, 

 relative to the rapid tranfmiffion of found underwater. 



Archimedes faid, Give me a fulcrum without the globe 

 and I will raife a power that fhall remove it from its orbit ; 

 and I fay — Place a correfpondent in Saturn, with the 

 power of producing and iuppreffing at will, any one ap- 

 pearance, and I will obtain an exait account of what 

 pafles in that planet. 



Before I quit this fubje£l of fignals, it will be feen that 

 they contain the very eflence of an univerfal language, fo 

 long defired by all commercial nations. It may however 

 be obferved that it is not fo much a new language that 

 is fought after, as the means of correfponding with every 

 one in his own ; and for this purpofe numbers appear to 

 me, the moft proper mediian. It need not then be con- 

 tended which language is the moft univerfal, nor need 

 there be any college for the ftudy of languages. One 

 plant named diiferently by fifty thoufand different na- 

 Y 2 tions 



